February 08, 2008

Infertility on the Rise

Did Aldous Huxley have something right when he predicted that fertility and birth control will be important issues in the future? As a young, single, gleefully irresponsible adult male, the last thing I want is to impregnate someone. I’ve been told my whole life that I must wear condoms and I need to wait until I have 2.5 mortgages and an HDTV before I pop out any young’uns. But what if I wait and am too late?

A quick list of things that may threaten my chances of fertility:

Cell phones (especially when they are in my pocket)

Laptop computers (when they are connected to the internet)

Antibiotic and pesticide residues that I may consume on my vegetables

Being around people who smoke weed

Smoking cigarettes

Water quality

Apparently 10-15% of British couples have trouble conceiving a child at some point during their relationship. That is a very scary statistic since we don’t know why it is the case.

Comments

There is an interesting documentary that I watched recently called "The Disappearing Male". It explains the major causes of infertility and why we are ALL at risk. It is a very eye-opening program. Our species may be going extinct. Sounds crazy, I know.

A friend of a friend of mine was the woman who did the research showing the link between pesticides and infertility. The MSM jumped on her with a phony debunk to her claim about dropping sperm counts - it used a skewed database, namely men who had had vasectomies - and considered the matter settled, even though they didn't address any of the rest of the **40 years** of
data she had accumulated from a number of different experiments.